Wa RaGa NTA NF? DE ER, 
ten inches long, of a dufky color: feet of a yellowifh brown. Are 
not fo well haunched as the Exzgli/fh Buck, and are lefs active *. 
Inhabits all the provinces fouth of Cazada, but in greateft 
abundance in the fouthern; but efpecially the vaft favannas con- 
tiguous to the Mififipi, and the great rivers which flow into it. 
They graze in herds innumerable, along with the Stags and Buffaloes. 
This fpecies probably extends to Guiana, and is the Baiew of that 
country, which is faid to be about the fize of a European Buck, with 
fhort horns, bending at their ends t+. 
They are capable of being made tame; and when properly trained, 
are ufed by the Indians to decoy the wild Deer (efpecially in the rut- 
ting feafon) within fhot. Both Bucks and Does herd from September 
to March ; after that they feparate, and the Does fecrete themfelves 
to bring forth, and are found with difficulty. The Bucks from this 
time keep feparate, till the amorous feafon of Septemder revolves. 
The Deer begin to feed as foon as night begins ; and fometimes, in 
the rainy feafon, in the day: otherwife they feldom or never quit their 
haunts. An old Americam fportfman has remarked, that the Bucks 
will keep in the thickets for a year, or even two f. 
Thefe animals are very reftlefs, and always in motion, coming and 
going continually §. Thofe which live near the fhores are lean and bad, 
fubject to worms in their heads and throats, generated from the eggs 
depotited in thofe parts ||. Thofe that frequent the hills and favannas 
are in better cafe, but the venifon is dry. In hard winters they will feed 
on the long mofs which hangs from the trees in the northern parts. 
Thefe and other cloven-footed quadrupeds of America are very 
fond of falt, and refort eagerly to the places impregnated with it. 
They are always feen in great numbers in the fpots where the ground 
* The late ingenious Mr. £i/is fhewed me a Bezoar found in one of thefe Deer, 
killed in Georgia. It was of a fpheroid form, an inch and three quarters broad, half 
an inch thick in the middle ; of a pale brown color; hard, fmooth, and glofly. 
+ Bancroft. } Do&tor Garden. § Du Pratz, ii. 51. || Lawu/fon, 124, 
IO has 
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